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Article #61083 (61123 is last): From: scholten@epg.nist.gov (Robert Scholten) Subject: Re: How hot should the cpu be? Date: Wed Apr 21 19:01:49 1993 The temp on my 486DX2/66 is over 96C (measured with a K-type thermocouple and Fluke 55 dig thermometer). This is an "idle" temp - not doing lots of bus i/o, not doing f...
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I actually saw this movie about three months ago, but it wasn't called EASY WHEELS. It was something else that escapes me at the moment but I did rent it from Blockbuster Video and it was a hoot, in the same class as Plan 9 From Outer Space.
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*Sigh* Don't know what your roomate is doing but it must be something wrong. Are there people who enjoy using Windows? Yes. I'll admit to it. Given a choice between a Mac and Windows I choose Windows every time (to start another flame thread 9-) ) .... --
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#|> # #|> #Noting that a particular society, in this case the mainland UK, #|> #has few religously motivated murders, and few murders of *any* #|> #kind, says very little about whether inter-religion murders elsewhere #|> #are religiously motivated. #|> #|> No, but it allows one to conclude that there is nothing inher...
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: I've only had the computer for about 21 months. Is that a reasonable life : cycle for a LCD display?
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Good point. If you haven't read "The True Believer" by Eric Hoffer, do so at your first opportunity. I don't know why Hoffer is out of style now, but "The True Believer" is still the best explanation of nutball behavior ever written.
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Hmm...are you a Taoist? Imposing limits *does* do something useful...it gives you something to go beyond. I tend to be a bit critical of any stratification of Taoism. I especially tend to frown on any suggestion that "orthodoxy" or "classics" have any special place in Tao. So rather than debate what "Taoism *RE...
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Woo! So far, we've had the following interpretations of the figure of the `Whore of Babylon' in Rev 17 & 18: a) The United States of America b) MHO dB) which was as a figure of the fallen spiritual powers who corrupt and oppress human society c) Historical Jerusalem d) Historical Rome Dare I suggest that the passa...
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I just entered the market for a Radar Detector and am looking for any & all advice/recommendations/warnings/etc from anyone in this group. Email is preferred.
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You Ford vs Chevy people must live in the planet of Detroit or Droid. Like they say in the airforce, with enough horsepower anything will fly. I can put a 32valve V-8 with twin Garret-4s on Yugo and get 7.7sec QM. Thats useless ... Its still a Yugo that will loose any race on a track, or on the street. Have you Det...
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If Prof. Denning is afraid of posting here due to personal attacks, perhaps she should use an anonymous posting service. That is why they are there, to allow heated debate to occur without the personal attacks. Is anon@penet back up yet?
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Hmmm... A possibility for the software registration conondrum would be to have the distributor register the copy when the software was sold. The clerk sticks it in the store PC and asks for the buyers ID. Later, if pirated versions showed up they could be tracked to the original purchaser. In addition copies which w...
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Most likely reason is that your backup battery is failing - this battery maintains the contents of the CMOS memory when AC power is turned off, and if the battery is flakey then the contents of the CMOS will be lost and the checksum will be wrong (along with most other of the CMOS data). Try replacing the battery. ...
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You shouldn't have ignored the ZyXEL. It can be purchased with a "Mac bundle", which includes a hardware-handshaking cable and FaxSTF software. The bundle adds between $35 and $60 to the price of the modem, depending on the supplier. It is true that the modem has no Mac-specific docs, but it doesn't require much 't...
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Oh? What about the precedent in which nuclear weapons information was published in "The Progressive"? I was under the impression that the court held that prior restraint could NOT be used. Any lawyers out there? -- Perry Metzger pmetzger@shearson.com
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I would appreciate it if someone could volunteer to verify the shots on goal and save percentage numbers for me, so I can put these stats on the archive site. Contact me by mail if you want to volunteer. Here are the team goalie stats as of: Wed Apr 21 09:09:38 CST 1993 These stats include games up to and including ...
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I thought the first thread was hilarious, so here goes another post. Some more background information on what has happened to my poor batteries. One year, I left the batteries in the garage. The garage is Unheated. They were left in their places that they needed to be. One in the riding lawnmower (what a lux) a...
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Brian, have you checked out what your priests told you in the Bible to see whether they were telling you the truth? Did you know that according to the Bible, there shouldn't even be such things as "priests" anymore? Do you know why the preisthood was established in the Old Testament to begin with and the reasons wh...
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Hi. I'm looking for a 3D shark for use in a ray tracing rountine I'm doing. I'll be using Vivid or POV, but it can be in any format. Are there any FTP sites with 3D objects or does anyone have a good 3D shark? Thanks alot! Chad
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(Susan Clark) asks: I am not so sure about the celebrated players of the game, but Tod Hartje, who played for Harvard in college and then went on to play in the AHL (initially for Moncton and currently for Providence-- thanks to Daryl Turner for the update!) appeared on David Letterman's show about two years ago now....
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I'd like to appeal to the net's NT wizards for a bit of advice. First a general description of the machine as follows: Motherboard: Utron 33 mhz Opti chipset, 20 meg memory, 256kb cache (soon I hope to drop a DX2 chip into it) Fahrenheit 1280 video (1 meg, 1024x768x256) ProAudio Spectrum 16 sound board prima...
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Grant Fuhr has done this to a lot better coaches than Brian Sutter...
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: Arrogance is arrogance. It is not the result of religion, it is the result : of people knowing or firmly believing in an idea and one's desire to show : others of one's rightness. I assume that God decided to be judge for our : sake as much as his own, if we allow him who is kind and merciful be the : judge, we'll...
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Well, there are several bursts in species diversity I can think of. The Cambrian and Ordovician explosions resulted in a vast increase in animal diversity. Likewise, after the one-two punch of the Permian and Triassic extinctions, the number of marine animals rose steadily (**) to an all-time high (*) just prior to t...
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It seems you lived a fairly 'wild life'-- my background is far more traditional, mostly working, working, working. Maybe there's a clear indication that the way you lived your life produced a certain amount of anxiety that needed to be released. Religion was one possible medicine. While my more stable environment did...
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Let's not forget Al Michaels, of "Do you believe in miracles?" fame.
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Maybe I should have been clearer. I have a Intel 386DX/25 that I would like to use to put together a system however all the motherboards that the local vendors are now selling are running either at 33 or 40 MHz. I guess I can cross my fingers and hope the CPU runs at that speed. ;^) I think I'll take Mark's advice a...
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The *real* way to speed up ballgames is for each home park owner to offer the following schedule of bonuses to players on *both* teams: For all players who participated in the game, offer $500 for each 10 minutes less than 3 hours the game took (i.e. if the game only took 2.5 hours, each player gets a bonus o...
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You are somewhat close to truth. But you shouldn't forget that nationality is a recent invention of the western europe. In the days of the Ottoman empire, the religion was the main point of difference between social classes. The Ottomans didn't recognize Turks, Arabs, Greeks, Serbs... Just christians, muslims, jews...
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I cured mine with Bag Balm which I bought at the local farm supply store. It is relatively cheap and works in a few days. The product was developed to treat sore udders.
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Uh, Bill James doesn't sell statistics. He sells books with statistics, but he is not in the business of providing stats like Elias, STATS, Howe, Baseball workshop etc. are.
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Another F2 rider had similiar problems, and this is the mail I sent him, hope this helps resolve you problem! AT Good point, did not catch this in the original post. The only other things which come to mind, since this is a gravity feed fuel system, is this. The fuel petcock valve is vacuum controlled from the #1 ...
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Please tell me where I can get a CD on the Wergo Music label for less than $20. foolishly,
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Damned if you do and Damned if you don't! Just for the record, Egyptian troops were one of the first to be stationed there. I can't remember the exact date but it was late last year. In fact, they lost at least one man there as far as I know.
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Can anyone provide me a ftp site where I can obtain a online version of the Book of Mormon. Please email the internet address if possible.
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Stupid question from a new IBM PC user: I'm going to be selling my Mac and getting a Gateway 2000. What is the difference between IDE HD and SCSI HD? The GW 486DX-33V comes with a 250MB Western Digital IDE drive. I asked how much more for the Seagate 500MB SCSI drive. The guy asked me "Why are you going with SCSI?"...
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21 Apr 1993 egreen@east.sun.com (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher) Writes: -->}Sheesh, even a trained attack dog is no match for a human, -->}we have *all* the advantages. --> -->I agree with this 100%. -- --Me, too... for chihuahua's. The police and the military don't train --dobermans and shephards and use them as weapons...
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WANTED - 4 256K 60ns SIPS
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I've got an old Super VGA card manufactured by SAMPO of Taiwan and I'm looking for a Windows 3.1 Driver for it. It's based on the Cirrus Logic CL-GD510A-32PC-B chip. I've contacted the suppliers here in New Zealand and they say that only Windows 2 divers were ever written by the manufacturer. So if there's a V3.1 dri...
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Does anybody know where I can get a copy of System 6.0.8L. It is a modified version of System 6 that will work on the newer Mac models.
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From: db7n+@andrew.cmu.edu (D. Andrew Byler) 1] An english translation of this can be found in: "The Acts of the Apostles, translated from the Codex Bezae, with an introduction on its Lucan Origin and Importance", J. M. Wilson (London, 1923). 2] Another work that might be useful is: "The Acts of the Apost...
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Hei Pei. I can not help you directly width you problem, but there may be intermediate roads to take to get to the IFF. I am using a converter that can take IGES, IIF, DXF -> IGES, MILESPEC I IGES, MILESPEC II IGES, IIF, MILESPEC I IIF, MILESPEC II IIF and DXF. IIF is IBM IGES FORMAT. There may be converters out th...
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TRAILER FOR SALE 1990 Hooper Auto Transport Trailer 16' x 6.5' Flatbed 4 Ton Gross Weight Capacity Tandem Axle Suspension 7 x 14.5 MH Nylon Tires Comes With a Spare Tire Electric Brakes Stop Lights & Turn Signals Loading Ramps - Tilt for Towing - Removable Front Steel Fence - Removable Stake Sides - for attaching side...
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You are stuck in a distributed system feedback loop! What if you are on an Xterminal or running xterm over the net to another machine? That is when the load problems occur. If you had a machine with 20 Xterminals attached and they all had blinking cursors in xterm's, this could represent a considerable ethernet...
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You can't call time when there's a play in progress. Ryan Robbins Penobscot Hall University of Maine
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+>Critisism is too easy. What solutions do people have that would have been +>better than what the FBI had been doing for the last few months? After the seige began: Surround the place with Razor wire and then let them sit. Do not have daily press conferences, do your best to keep things out of the press. As th...
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I appeal to to all of you to show up in Washington DC. this saturday to participate in a peaceful demonstration for the sake of humanity!! This is a critical point in the history of world and we can make a change otherwise things will not change there in Bosnia.. Rapes/killings/ethnic cleansing will go on as a norm in...
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Hi, I have the following problem: I have to use a computer for special purposes that doesn't have a monitor and keyboard connected. No monitor isn't a program - but no keyboard. I can't disable the keyboard from BIOS setup (in fact, there is no setup). I spoke to someone who said that he had fooled the BIOS with simp...
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Depends on the FDC but generally No. The drive at the end after the twist should be set as Drive 0 Since you're using the 5.25 as drive A: it should be at the end after the twist with the resistor pack fitted. Yes Hope this helps. I had exactly the same problems. Unfortunately when I changed to different machine ...
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A few weeks ago I saw an ad in the German magazine c't about a so-called Videostreamer. This is an interface between a PC's parallel port and any video-recorder for backing up your data on a videotape. The company (DataSave?) claims that it can store up to 7 GB on a 300 minutes tape. ^^^^^^^^^^...
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Does anyone belong to or know any facts about the Christian Reformed Church?
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Yeah, People act really shocked about violence, as though it were new to our species... What about the holocaust? The crusades? The Salem witch trials? The religious persecutions of the middle-ages? What about violent acts carried out in the name of religion all over the world? What about the early Christians put t...
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Well, suppose your mother was a crack addict and crack user/abuser while she was pregnant? Suppose your husband gave you some SDT (this recently happened to a close friend of my wife and mine)? OFTEN, the consequences of our sin are at least partially inflicted on innocent people. Several times in the OT, this i...
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hartzman@kilroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Les Hartzman) writes... Les, I am right now working on an MPR-II certified (Swedish standards for low emissions) Hitachi Superscan 15 monitor. It's 1024x768, up to 72hz at that res, and it got a good write-up for image quality in a recent (Feb.?) issue of PC Magazine. As far as I kno...
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Due it seems to Sun's crapulous organisation of the X libraries and includes, most standard (GNU and other) software won't compile out of the box (well, tar file). Right now I'm trying to make ghostview. It complains it can't find X11/XaW/... so I just linked (ln -s) the files from /usr/openwin/share/include/X11 and ...
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The Catholic doctrine of predestination does not exclude free will in any way. Since God knows everything, He therefore knows everything that is going to happen to us. We have free will, and are able to change what happens to us. However, since God knows everything, He knows all the choices we will m...
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I have some more 35mm slide projectors for sale regardless for my first post. All with new light bulb, no lens, no remote controller. All inperfect working condition. 1. Kodak Carousel 800 non-AF $60 2. Kodak carousel 760H autofocus $85 3. Singer Caramate II, w/built-in lens, casette player non-AF $40 4. Singer C...
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I have uploaded the most recent Windows drivers for the Cirrus GD5426 chip based display cards to the uploads directory at ftp.cica.indiana.edu (file is 5426dr13.zip). They're very recent, I downloaded them from the Cirrus BBS (570-226-2365) last night. If you are unable to get them there, email me and maybe I can ...
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... Well, lets for a hypothetical put our selves in the place of the US end of the drug rings. What do we do about the Cripple chip? First off, we would express disaproval to our congress critters, and remind them of the large sums of money our legitimate co.s provide to their campain coffers. We would also let them k...
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F O R S A L E ================ Triumph Spitfire '76, 1500 - Convertible - 54,000k original miles - Burgandy Color - Wooden Dashboard - No rust - Garage kept - Heater - Chrome bumpers(not the black plastic crap) - Brand new top - Asking $3,000 --negotiable ...
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Does anyone know of any free X-servers for PCs, preferably that run under MS Windows? THANKS.
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Don't be so vague. Let us reexamine it - shall we? Here you descend into total inanity. Your inability to distinguish between 'the cold-blooded genocide of Muslim people by the Armenians' and 'the Armenian war' is incredible. Now, please provide us with your corrections. Source: Stanford J. Shaw, on Armenian...
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I am currently searching for old video tapes of music groups of the early 80's to the late 80's. At first I requested VHS formats, but now i'm accepting either VHS, 8MM, OR BETA. The type of format i'm interested in are the type that most nite clubs or trendy clothing stores play. If you do have any of these tapes j...
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Sorry Charlie... I have a dozen, VERY blue LED's on my bench right now. They have a clear plastic case and when lit, are absolutely BLUE. The hue is sort of a "summer day cloudless sky blue" but make no mistake, they are blue. You can buy them from Digikey, Circuit Specialist, Jameco (I think), LED-Tronics, Stanley O...
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:Read the xterm's manual pages for more informations about the avaliable :actions of xterm. Read the FAQ and get a good book on customizing your :X applications. Okay, I will byte. Could someone provide more info on a 'good book on customizing your X applicaitons'? I am in search of one which does NOT expect the rea...
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Sorry all the personal replies I sent about help with UnlockFolder got eaten by my mail program (my fault), so I'd like to thank everyone who sent me info! Kristen Lepa
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: Nothing, but if you read my WHOLE suggestion, I'm saying that you register : via MAIL by mailing in your registration card, THEN the company send you : the patch which includes the info you put on the registration card. The problem with this scheme, is that when I buy a game, I want to play it *THAT* day...mailing a...
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qpalo@digi.lonestar.org (Gerry Palo) For my money the primary danger of anti-cult groups is that they are every bit as wacky as the groups they oppose and that by and large they have no compunctions about printing lies, half-truths and misleading innuendos as part of their exposes. A recent book on cults I picked up...
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Protestants love to play up Jerome for all he is worth. They should remeber that after the Decree of Pope St. Damsus I, Jerome did not hesitate in accpeting the deuteroncanon, and quoted them as Scripture in his later writings. And as I have already pointed out, in a previous letter on this subject, the Catholic Chu...
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Sorry to be contradictory, but... I've had my Nighthawk at 45 degress with the horizon and I wasn't banked over in a turn... The hard part is getting the front in off the ground. I rev to about 7,000 at DROP the clutch. Even harder is keeping it from coming up to far-- I use the back brake as well as the throt...
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Hi Netters, Having inherited a Solbourne (S-4000 : Sun 4 Compatible), I was wondering if somebody has ported X11R5 to this beast. Since Solbournce Computer Inc. folded up I don't know where I can get the kernel to move from R4. Since they never joined the MIT Consortium, the regular distribution doesn't work. Any poin...
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I am looking for an available program that would convert gif files to other formats usable on DOS-based software such as WordPerfect Presentations (which will handle .wpg and .tiff, among others). Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you very much for your time and help. Steve alford@novavax.nova.edu
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Anybody know where I can get Graphics Work Shop?
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: What exactly does the windows bitmap format look like? I mean, how is : the data stored: width, height, no. of colours, bitmap data? I couldn't : find anything in ths user manual, is there any other reference material : which would give me this information?
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I've been thinking about how difficult it would be to make PGP available in some form on EBCDIC machines. The message authentication would be ugly, but I think at least the IDEA encryption could work, if PGP had a switch to tell it to use IDEA in OFB-mode or ECB-mode. In OFB-mode, errors in translating EBCDIC-->ASCII...
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I was wondering if anyone knows of a graphics package for the PC that will do compositing of a series of pictures? What I mean by "compositing" is, say I have a live video clip (digitized) panning around a living room, and a computer-generated bird flying around the screen. I want to combine these two...
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2 simple reasons: (1) Batting Williams ahead of Bonds will create a Left(Clark), Right(Williams), Left(Bonds) situation in the middle of the batting order. This makes it tougher for opposing manager to change pitchers. (2) Having Bonds batting behind Williams means that Matt will get mo...
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The Jerusalem Post is only a small part of the Israeli media ( One that caters to outsiders for the most part, anyways). If you never read Ha'aretz, Maariv, or other Hebrew langauge papers , or at least seen some of their articles translated, you are not really getting the Israeli media. Inlcuding some of the l...
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:> : :> : Basically, the Mac Pluses are constantly rebooting themselves, as if the :> : reboot button were being pushed. Sometimes the Mac is able to fully boot : well this threads been going long enough... I'll add a diferent twist. I found that the constant rebooting was due to overheating. We had added 4Mb ram, ...
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If, if, if.... Anyway, the question was if the gun was identifiable, which it is. -Tim
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I would like to know if their is any medical consensus (or consensus within this group) regarding the ethics of the following: 1: Prescription of placebo medications when the patient did not specifically request any sort of treatment. 2: Selling a placebo medication for a profit. 3: Prescribing homeopathi...
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Sorry about the delay in responding, due to conference paper deadline panic. [Alarming amounts of agreement deleted :-)] That ("complicated") isn't in fact where P(H) > P(HG) comes from; it's more the other way around. It's from P(H) = P(HG) + P(HG') where G' is the complement of G and by axiom, P(anything)...
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: Ok, what's more important to gay Christians? Sex, or Christianity? : Christianity I would hope. Would they be willing to forgo sex : completely, in order to avoid being a stumbling block to others, : to avoid the chance that their interpretation might be wrong, : etc? If not, why not? Heterosexuals abstain all th...
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[ description deleted] any idea on prices??
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How does the 16 bit color of HDTV work ? It can not be 5 bit Red Green and Blue like on the Macintosh. This gives only 64 gray levels. Apple also has developed a point-point network that is around 200MB (not sure if it is bits or bytes) per sec.
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The suggestion that they Davidians committed suicide is completely without evidence. Except for the editorials... Please re-word. "propensity for allegedly dousing themselves". Oh, and the survivors claim the the FBI started the burning by accidentally igniting kerosene lanterns (remember that they'd already cut ...
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No. The blue LEDs sold down the street are in milky-white plastic. And, fyi, putting a filter on a "typical visible light LED" (presumably meaning a non-blue one) won't produce blue light. A filter can only block light, it can't generate wavelengths that aren't there to start with.
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First, a longer game in no way suggests "more baseball to watch," unless you include watching the grass grow as baseball. The lengthier games are so because of batters stepping out of the box, pitchers taking longer between pitches and excessive trips to the mound by managers and pitching coaches. And while it's ...
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[a lot of stuff deleted -- i'm focusing on just one point] i'm a little confused about the difference between this "weak atheism", as you put it, and agnosticism. is agnosticism not believing or necessarily disbelieving in anything, or what is it? i used to be agnostic (by this definition) -- but if weak atheism in...
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Don't feed it so much. Seriously. Sort of like that scene in "10", in the minister's study, when the secretary lets one fly, and the startled dog runs from the room. The minister explains, "Every time Mrs. Soandso breaks wind, we beat the dog."
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It seems to me that the original question was for advice on his problem not a history lesson - I think that if this question comes up from time to time then people should get a civil answer Could ANYONE please explain WHAT happens with a battery and is there any cure to get it back into life
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Pick up a copy of PC Magazine or Byte, and look in the classifieds and small-print ads in the back. There are a handful of shops that specialize in BIOS upgrades.
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My 486DX2-50 has 8MB of 70ns RAM and a Trident SVGA card. Sometimes I feel it runs very slowly, especially when running Windows. I'm planning to buy an ATI Graphic Ultra + next semester. Is that all I need to get the problem solved? Is 70ns RAM chips too slow for my machine? Do faster RAM chips make a big difference? ...
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Hello, I am writing a program which forks of a number of child processes and each of the children printing things on the screen (quite messy in one window)... The "xterm -Sxxd" option seems to be the solution to opening up slave windows only to display output and I use the following code to open up a pty (taken fro...
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Hans> As somebody replied on whether the space shuttle is connected to Hans> Usenet: "No. Of course the main flow of information would be up, Hans> unless Henry Spencer would be aboard, in which case the main Hans> flow of information would be down." Gene Miya says that Henry will never go aloft in the Shuttle; the p...
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HI! I need a codabar font for win. TT or other. Thanks!
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Being what? Oh, _weird_. OK, I'm warned! Keep watch for what? Oh, the several tens (or hundreds) of millions of dollars it would cost to "record things" there. And I'd prefer a manned mission, anyway. We've already got a pretty good platform to "scan" the solar system, as well as SETI and looking at the galax...
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